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Published: 2009-04-22 21:34:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1672; Favourites: 106; Downloads: 0
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We headed up to High Stile on the west side of Buttermere today but only made it to Bleaberry Tarn. Our sore knees and common sense outweighed our pride and we headed back down. A good choice as it turned out. Looking back up the hill when we reached the bottom we saw the mist rolling in over the hill and it was soon shrouded in mist.Related content
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lol High Style is such a killer walk 
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It was the first day of our holiday and hadn't broken in our hiking legs yet so to be honest we just made it up to the tarn.
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I've never been to bleaberry tarn, each time I've done High Style it's been from the Haystacks side and were always to knackered to continue past Red Pike.
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It was quite a nice walk up from Buttermere, lots of stone steps, but quite steep and hard on wobbly legs.
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Lovely view, nice composition, but was it really necessary to give it the HDR treatment? It makes the sky distracting unnatural and unattractive.
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Funny but you're the first person who has had a problem with this. My guess is that you are an hdr phobic.
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Not at all - I use Photomatix all the time. That's how I know how difficult it can be to get skies to look right in HDR, and incidentally how I know the temptation to use HDR even when it may not really be necessary. Whether that was the case with this picture of yours I can't tell, though I can see it may have helped with getting good exposure in the foreground.
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Okay I accept that. I've checked your gallery and you're pretty good at fairly natural looking hdr images. However, I still don't get where you're coming from with my Buttermere image. I am not super sensitive and I request and take constructive criticism well but I think you're way over the top in calling this image unattractive. In my opinion, yes hdr was called for and I am proud of this one.
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I certainly don't think the image is unattractive, and if you look I didn't say so. If I'd thought it was, I wouldn't have bothered to comment. My point was that the unnatural look of the sky distracted attention from the beauty of the rest, and I'd stand by that. I think a small amount of re-editing could lift this from the "nice but flawed" into the "outstanding" class
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'It makes the sky distracting unnatural and unattractive'
Not to quibble but if I said I found the sky of an image to be unattractive that would indicate an unattractive image.
I also don't want to be ornery but I honestly have no problem with the sky and can't think of a thing I'd change. We are of course all entitled to our own opinions.
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I think if you want to get the full benefit of being in a community like dA, you need to learn to accept what is intended as constructive criticism. (As this is too.)
My own initial comment, which you quote, was incidentally meant to say "distractingly", not "distracting". If that makes any difference at all.
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Thanks for your input. I do appreciate it even if in this case I don't agree. I think if you looked at various comments made on my shots you'll see that I generally accept, and give, criticism very well but I usually steer clear of using derogatory terms like βunattractiveβ.
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Fair enough. I'll take that as constructive criticism
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Yes it is. One of my more subtle images.
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Hello there 
This is just to let you know that we've featured you in our latest news article "The Best Of Freestyle Vol. IV" . Thank you so much for your contribution.
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Thanks for the feature.
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Thanks. That was taken the first day of our holidays and it's still one of my favourites.
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What an eye-catching capture - Absolutely beautiful
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Very nice landscape well composed great color!
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Excellent composition Rebecca and beautiful tones and saturation but again I would increase the highlight smoothing to give better definition in the sky. Very nice.
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Thanks Tony.
I'm still working it all out. I've only just learned that the highlight smoothing is what gives that painting quality so I'm probably overdoing it a tad.
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Thank you. It's so wonderful being here with a lovely scene arouund every corner.
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